Current lab members:
Nadia (Nadejda) Tsankova, MD/PhD – Principal Investigator
Susana Isabel Ramos, PhD – Postdoctoral fellow
Balu (Balagopal) Pai, PhD – Postdoctoral fellow
Thenzing Silva, PhD – Postdoctoral fellow
Past lab members:
Tanvi Joshi, BS – Master’s Student, from 2019 to 2021
Anne Marie Barrette, PhD Graduate, from 2017 to 2020
Jessica Tome-Garcia, PhD, from 2014 to 2019
Parsa Erfani – Research Associate, from 2014 to 2016
(Harvard Medical graduate, currently resident at Brigham and Women’s)
Halle Ronk – Medical Student ISMMS
Elisa Falk, PhD – Neuropathology research elective
(currently Neurology resident at Boston Children’s)
Elizabeth LaMarca – Graduate student, PhD candidate
Corey Gill – Medical / Masters Student
(currently resident in Neurosurgery at Washington University)
Zarmeen Mussa, BS – Research Associate
Jordan Goldberg, MS – Masters Student, from 2014-2015
Elodia Caballero, BS – Undergraduate Student, from 2015 to 2016
(currently medical student at UCSF)
Collaborators:
Dr. Peter Canoll, Pathology (Columbia University)
Dr. Fiona Doetsch, Neuroscience, Stem Cell Biology (Biozentrum, University of Basel)
Dr. Elena Zaslavsky and Dr. German Nudelman, Neurology (ISMMS)
Dr. Martin Walsh, Neurology, Genetics and Genomics (ISMMS)
Dr. Robert Sebra, Genetics and Genomic Science (ISMMS)
Dr. Alexander Tsankov, Oncological Sciences (ISMMS)
Dr. Roland Friedel, Neuroscience (ISMMS)
Dr. Raymund Yong, Neurosurgery (ISMMS)
Dr. Jenny Zhou, Neuroscience (ISMMS)
Dr. Costas Hadjipanayis, Neurosurgery (ISMMS)
Dr. Ming-Ming Zhou, Pharmacological Sciences (ISMMS)
Dr. Cathie Pfleger, Oncological Sciences (ISMMS)
Dr. Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Pathology (ISMMS)
Dr. Schahram Akbarian, Psychiatry (ISMMS)
Dr. Pamela Sklar, Genetics and Genomic Science (ISMMS)
( the legacy of whom continues to guide our scientific questions and aspirations )
Dr. Kristen Brennand, Neuroscience (ISMMS)
Dr. Raj Shrivastava, Neurosurgery (ISMMS)
Dr. Saadi Ghatan, Neurosurgery (ISMMS)
Dr. Adilia Hormigo, Neuro-Oncology (ISMMS)
Dr. Panagiotis Roussos, Psychiatry (ISMMS)
Dr. Priti Balchandani, Radiology (ISMMS)
Dr. Patrick Hoff, Neuroscience (ISMMS)